Youji deliberately does not react to the oddness. Omi has enough to deal with on his own here.
He does light a cigarette to stave off a headache. He does hope Omi doesn't get caught.
And what's the endgame here? If Omi proves that Bruce Wayne isn't worth targeting, will Kritiker accept that? If Omi can poke a hole in Kritiker's reporting in 48 hours with nothing but blind optimism and an even younger teenage sidekick, that really doesn't say much for the organization's operating procedures. If they were targeting personal enemies, not threats to society as a whole...
What am I thinking? Kritiker was always targeting personal enemies... it was just lucky that Reiji Takatori was also a threat to society.
He didn't get paid to think, that was the problem. When it was him and Asuka, he had to do all the thinking, because she was a hothead, and Persia's greatest selling point was the promise of no longer dealing with that. Trust in Persia, Persia is right, Persia's morality is the only thing standing between you and them.
And the Persia who said all of that was dead.
I don't get paid enough for this, he thought. I get paid for the exact opposite of this.
It wouldn't hurt to follow Omi in place of Persia. Well, it might hurt Omi, but having an adult there to mitigate the fallout -- to even expect fallout -- might be the best he could do.
In the end, he didn't want innocent people to die, either. Wasn't that the whole point of this operation?
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He does light a cigarette to stave off a headache. He does hope Omi doesn't get caught.
And what's the endgame here? If Omi proves that Bruce Wayne isn't worth targeting, will Kritiker accept that? If Omi can poke a hole in Kritiker's reporting in 48 hours with nothing but blind optimism and an even younger teenage sidekick, that really doesn't say much for the organization's operating procedures. If they were targeting personal enemies, not threats to society as a whole...
What am I thinking? Kritiker was always targeting personal enemies... it was just lucky that Reiji Takatori was also a threat to society.
He didn't get paid to think, that was the problem. When it was him and Asuka, he had to do all the thinking, because she was a hothead, and Persia's greatest selling point was the promise of no longer dealing with that. Trust in Persia, Persia is right, Persia's morality is the only thing standing between you and them.
And the Persia who said all of that was dead.
I don't get paid enough for this, he thought. I get paid for the exact opposite of this.
It wouldn't hurt to follow Omi in place of Persia. Well, it might hurt Omi, but having an adult there to mitigate the fallout -- to even expect fallout -- might be the best he could do.
In the end, he didn't want innocent people to die, either. Wasn't that the whole point of this operation?